Staff Software Engineer, Network Automation

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

2d•$215,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Network Automation Engineer to design and deliver the automation frameworks, observability platforms, and self-healing workflows that keep our global network fleet running at scale. This role sits at the intersection of Network Engineering, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure Reliability — and is central to Crusoe's mission of building AI infrastructure that scales intelligently, not just bigger. This is a full-time role for someone who wants to work on hard problems at hyperscale.

Requirements

8+ years of network engineering experience with a demonstrated focus on production network automation and infrastructure as code
Production-quality software engineering skills in Python or Go, with CI/CD integration and platform-level thinking
Hands-on experience with model-driven automation including gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, and YANG
Experience contributing to or owning a network source of truth platform such as NetBox or Nautobot
Strong knowledge of Arista (EOS) and/or Juniper (Junos) in leaf-spine DC fabric environments
Solid understanding of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP at data center scale
Experience building or contributing to observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming telemetry tooling

Nice To Haves

Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in production environments
Familiarity operating at fleet scale across thousands of network devices in multi-region environments
Exposure to closed-loop, event-driven automation and auto-remediation systems
Experience in hyperscale or internet-scale infrastructure (cloud providers, large CDNs, or AI/ML infrastructure companies)

Responsibilities

Contribute to the technical roadmap for Crusoe's automation stack, from source of truth and config generation through day-2 operations and closed-loop remediation across our global fleet.
Help design and maintain the authoritative data model (NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent) that drives network configuration, validation, and operational state across teams.
Build and maintain declarative, model-driven configuration systems using Python, Nornir, Ansible, and Jinja2, treating the network as code and eliminating configuration drift.
Contribute to Crusoe's gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategy for telemetry collection, configuration management, and state validation across multi-vendor fabrics.
Build and maintain event-driven auto-remediation systems that detect faults, correlate telemetry, and resolve known failure modes without human escalation.
Help build and improve Crusoe's telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming gNMI collectors.
Work closely with Network Architecture to ensure designs are automation-first — deployable, validatable, and operable programmatically at scale.